Before we got in, I had a security guard ask to search inside my handbag. I asked why and he didn’t answer. I asked again and he said it was because my bag was “too big”. Seriously. Myke said that we were going to be sat down and the security guard said he had to check with ANOTHER security guard, who was obviously less of an idiot and permitted me to keep my handbag. Don’t know where they would have expected me to leave my handbag.

We got into the room where it was to be held and the crowd on the floor was massive. Although I was sat down and as far away from the crowd as I could be, I still felt claustrophic.

The first act on stage was Hellyeah, who were loud and awesome. I really liked them but Myke didn’t enjoy them quite so much. Think the crowd on the floor liked them too as they kept making little circle pits to run around in.

After Hellyeah, it was StoneSour’s turn to take the stage. They were very, very good but I didn’t like them quite as much as Hellyeah (the support act. Li HAD to like the support act the most!). StoneSour were the reason Myke wanted to go to the gig in the first place, so he was a very happy bunny.

The final act of the evening were Avenged Sevenfold, who are a bit of an emo group. I liked this group the least (as did Myke) but they had cool stage effects, with their backdrop gates going up in flames. That kinda made up for the fact that you couldn’t actually hear what they were singing; it was SO loud.

Also, the lead singer spotted a circle pit form and then die off and then said that the crowd should form “one of those circle pit things” and see which group had the biggest. Two circle pits formed but one was much bigger and he said for them to merge together…they died off instead.

I liked the gig but found the crowd on the floor to be much more entertaining to watch than the actual groups performing. I LOVED Hellyeah and liked StoneSour a lot. Didn’t think much of Avenged Sevenfold but I think I will still try out one of their albums before I totally make my mind up.

I didn’t manage to get any good photos of the gig; we weren’t allowed to take photos and if one of the security guards spotted anyone taking photographs, they would ask them to stop. I just got sneakier with it and would hold my phone on my leg and lean into Myke, so it didn’t look like I was taking any photographs. I know – I’m such a rebel.

The other day, I watched a film called “FREAKS!”, which was released in 1932 as a horror film. It was so horrific, that it was banned in most countries. What about it was so horrific? Considering how people reacted to someone who was different back then, it was probably that it featured actual, real, “freaks”; people with missing limbs, dwarfs, siamese twins, bearded ladies and loads more. And not what happened at the end or anything.

I watched it and I thought it was great. And I really don’t know why, since the acting sucked and I could barely understand what some of the cast were saying (Prince Randian and Schlitze being the most difficult) and some of the sound was out of sync to what was happening on the screen.

I’m not going to tell you what to do but I totally think you should watch this film. It’s available on Google Video^{^} – for FREE – so you can’t even say it’ll be a waste of money if you don’t like it.

First, I watched “A Haunting In Georgia” which was totally not scary. It must have had no effect on me because I don’t really remember anything from it (I think it was about a small boy and his imaginary friend, who happened to be the ghost of an old man?).

The next episode, which was called “A Haunting In Connecticut”, was on straight after “A Haunting In Georgia”.

I watched it. By the end of the episode, I was in the furthest corner of the couch. I ended up phoning my mum and begging her to come back home.
I was 17 years old and already watched some pretty scary films in my time.

A couple of years on, I was talking to Matt and he was telling me about this really scary programme on TV which he’d seen the night before. He couldn’t remember what it was called but told me some of the stuff that happened. I recognised it as “A Haunting In Connecticut” and we laughed about how scared it made us.

A few years after that, a film has recently been released. Called “A Haunting In Connecticut” and from what I’ve read, it appears to be the film version of that TV show I watched.
Either way, Myke and I are going to watch it and I can’t wait. I just hope it IS the film version of that TV show and I hope it scares me as much now as it did then!

I HATED – I mean REALLY hated – Ronan when I was younger. It’s not his fault; he never did anything to me. It was my mum’s fault because, whenever Boyzone came on the TV, she’d tell me that Ronan was going to be my stepdad. I was still trying to get used to the idea of my mum and dad not being together at the time, so it wasn’t a good time for her to say this to me. (Plus, I was only ten or eleven.)

Anyway – back to the song. It keeps getting a lot of plays on the radio station we listen to in work and I like it more and more every time I hear it.
So I went and bought “Time After Time” by Ronan Keating (Radio Promo version)^{^}. I also pre-ordered the album version (I sometimes end up preferring the album versions).

I’m now going to be sat here with it on repeat.

Now I’ve sat through some spectacularly bad horror films in my time – the Unnamable^{^}, Teeth^{^}, etc – but Mirrors? Has to be right up there with the crappiest of the crap horror films.

Basically, it’s about – well, mirrors. People see weird stuff in them and blah blah blah. Kiefer Sutherland comes along and starts to see the weird stuff and goes and talks to someone about it (his wife I think?) and it jumps from “I’m seeing weird shit in the mirrors” to “they’re showing me another dimension”. What? Where did you get that?

And. Mr Sutherland – who is normally a good actor – did such a bad acting job that even I, someone who skived off every single drama lesson and can’t even keep a straight face when I’m trying to wind someone up, could have done a better job.

What a waste of time. I watched it Friday and I’m still annoyed that I wasted what could have been good, quality Farscape time.

After I grew bored of that, I took a look around the band/artist’s page and noticed that there’s a little “Similar Artists” section, with other bands and artists who sound like the one you’re viewing.

I started clicking around these and listening to the tracks and finding more new-to-me bands. I happily spent about three hours listening to new stuff, favouriting the stuff I really liked and adding stuff to my library.

I don’t watch much TV and don’t even remember the last time I watched the Box or Kerrang, so the only way I usually find new stuff to listen to, is off the radio. And I’m normally forced to suck it up and listen to the crap being played by Plymouth Sound, Radio 1 or Radio 2.
So, yeah. It’s not very often that I listen to new stuff and when I do, it’s usually bloody Pop, RnB, Hip Hop or Rap.
I prefer stuff like Linkin Park, Nickelback, Staind, Queen Adreena.

Via Last.fm, I’ve ‘discovered’ new stuff¹ I like and want to listen to! Breaking Benjamin, Mudvayne, Skillet, Evans|Blue, Taproot, Three Days Grace, Collide and Seether being the big ‘I LOVE!’s.

Happy.

¹ – I know that some of these bands, if not all, have been around a while. I’ve just never been able to listen to them before.

I rarely listen to the radio but a few weeks ago, my mum had it on and a song came on. I thought it was a cute, if slightly cheesy, song. The chorus was kinda catchy too…

I thought it might be from the new High School Musical film. It just sounds like something they’d sing (I haven’t seen the film but have heard EVERY SINGLE SONG from the first film, thanks to my brother and sister)…but why does the man’s voice sound screechy?

I searched for the song, using the part of the lyrics I could remember the best (“No hope, no love, no glory. No happy ending.”).

It’s by Mika? Seriously?